Having a bad day

[Guest]

Just have a look at this piece of footage.

This is what happens when sometimes you just don't get it right!! Watch it as it goes over to Starboard and at that split second try to imagine what it would be like trying to stand on the decks.

http://www.cruisebruise.com/Cruise_Videos/Cruise_Video_109.html

[Guest]

Mr. bunkerbarge, is she dead in the water, or what is the problem?

[John]

I feel sea sick just watching it

[Guest]

Hans she is not dead in the water, she has been caught by the severe weather on her Port beam which is pushing her over to Starboard quite acutely. Her best action may be to turn into the weather but there may be other factors involved preventing her doing so. If she was dead in the water in those conditions she would be in very serious trouble.

John, go watch the horizon outside your window for a bit and take a breath of fresh air. You'll feel better then.

I used to love weather like that on cargo ships, really exhilirating stuff! I have been in one or two hairy situations though which went beyond exitement which scared me a bit!!

The real thoughts though in the video must be with the passengers who have never been on a ship before. They must have genuinely felt that thier time was up and to live that level of fear for that length of time must have been traumatic.

[Guest]

The other video of the above cruise ship shows it getting engulfed in a huge wave and the bridge windows being pushed out too...

http://www.cruisebruise.com/Cruise_Videos/Cruise_Video_85.html

Thanks for the link to those videos.

I was looking at this vid too:

http://www.cruisebruise.com/Cruise_Videos/Cruise_Video_89.html

It's a container ship, has some nice footage looking along a corridoor inside the ship and you can see the ship twisting in the swell as they sight along the bulkheads, the sound is quite poor but it's pretty creepy.

[Guest]

I have seen that effect many a time on the North Atlantic. Crouch down on the deck at the aft end (you won't do it too often as getting cold and wet for the sake of this soon wears off as a novelty!!) and look along the length of the ship and you can see it 'flowing' with the wave action.

Another interesting one is very large marine diesel engines of say 900mm bore, 2500 mm stroke. If you stand at the end of the engine and sight something on each head and line them all up you can see the individual cylinders stretch as they fire and once again see a flow as the engine rotates.